Abstract
We report a case of CTX-M-55-type extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Shigella sonnei infection in a 27-year-old Korean woman who had traveled to China. The patient was admitted to the hospital due to abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, and fever (39.3°C). S. sonnei was isolated from her stool specimens, and the pathogen was found to be resistant to cefotaxime due to CTX-M-55-type ESBL. Insertion sequence (IS)Ecp1 was found upstream of the blaCTX-M-55 gene. The blaCTX-M-55 gene was transferred from the S. sonnei isolate to an Escherichia coli J53 recipient by conjugation. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Southern blotting revealed that the blaCTX-M-55 gene was located on a plasmid of approximately 130 kb.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 141-144 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Annals of Laboratory Medicine |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- CTX-M-55
- ESBL
- Shigella sonnei